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was killed in 1853 in the Grisons above Sculms, a small village 

 on the Hezenberg, between Bonaduz and Versanti. In this 

 animal even the hoofs were white, and the irides rose colour. 

 The horns were a little more than an inch in length ; the hair 

 very thick and close, particularly about the neck. Several 

 other instances of the occurrence of white Chamois will be 

 found recorded in 'The Zoologist' for 1878, p. 337; and 1886, 

 p. 331. 



Partially white Chamois are also rare. The author mentions 

 one with pure white hind-quarters which was shot by a friend 

 near Kufstein. For a second edition he may note that another 

 similarly marked, an eight or ten year old buck, was shot by 

 Forstwart Keisigl at Vomper Loch, Tyrol, in the autumn of 

 1882. It is figured and described in * Der Weidmann,' July 31st, 

 1896 (Band xxvii., No. 45). 



When quoting the remarks (more or less fabulous) of Jacques 

 du Fouilloux, the great French sportsman of the sixteenth 

 century, about a kind of wild goat which he calls Ysarus (p. 28), 

 allusion might have been made to the fact that the Chamois of 

 the Pyrenees is known as Izard, We believe it is not specifically 

 distinct, but certain differences have been observed which will be 

 found enumerated by Schinz in his 'Europaische Fauna' (vol. i. 

 p. 86), and are translated by the late Lord Clermont in his 

 * Guide to the Quadrupeds of Europe/ 1859 (p. 140). 



With regard to the horns, which are borne by both sexes, the 

 longest pair known to collectors measured over the curve a trifle 

 more than twelve inches in length, which is about one-third more 

 than the average length. Mr. Baillie Grohman has seen two 

 specimens of this abnormal length : one in the late Duke of 

 Coburg's collection ; the other in the collection of Count Arco 

 Zinneberg at Munich. The author himself once shot a buck in 

 South Tyrol with eleven-inch horns, four inches in girth. Ten- 

 inch horns, he says, are not too common, and are carried by 

 perhaps one buck in fifty. He adds, as an observed fact, that 

 Chamois frequenting a limestone formation have bigger horns 

 than those found in slate or granite mountains, and this con- 

 firms what has been noted in regard to the growth of Eed Deer 

 antlers. 



At page 34 we note some remarks on the rarity of a Chamois 

 with four horns, and Mr. Baillie Grohman is of opinion that in 



